*The Secret Garden* by the same author has a stronger coming-of-age or taking charge of one’s own fate sort of theme, and is about a girl and a boy both going through the process together.
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Boys can read A Little Princess. Nothing bad will happen to them 🙂
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A Little Princess
dough_eating_squid on
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Holes by Louis Sachar (although this is lightly comical)
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
I want to say Belle Prater’s Boy, the main character is a girl, but her male cousin is the center of most of the plot/action
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Alone in the World by Hector Malot.
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A Little Princess is about child abuse, abandonment, and poverty, so I’m not sure I actually consider it a light read. But if you want a classic, then Tom Sawyer would qualify. If you want something more modern, then kids in that age range often enjoy books like Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, etc. My son was very into graphic novels at that age (e.g. Mighty Jack by Ben Hatke) as well.
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*The Secret Garden* by the same author has a stronger coming-of-age or taking charge of one’s own fate sort of theme, and is about a girl and a boy both going through the process together.
Boys can read A Little Princess. Nothing bad will happen to them 🙂
A Little Princess
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Holes by Louis Sachar (although this is lightly comical)
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
I want to say Belle Prater’s Boy, the main character is a girl, but her male cousin is the center of most of the plot/action
Alone in the World by Hector Malot.
A Little Princess is about child abuse, abandonment, and poverty, so I’m not sure I actually consider it a light read. But if you want a classic, then Tom Sawyer would qualify. If you want something more modern, then kids in that age range often enjoy books like Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, etc. My son was very into graphic novels at that age (e.g. Mighty Jack by Ben Hatke) as well.